MALMO, SWEDEN - A few weeks ago in Toronto, Zach Fucale said he wanted to go to the world junior and “write his own little story.”

The 18-year-old goalie has been granted that opportunity by coach Brent Sutter at the 2014 tournament.

Fucale will start in goal for Canada against Slovakia on Monday, and Sutter emphasized on Sunday that the door to Canada’s crease remains open for the remainder of the tournament.

“You have to embrace it,” Fucale said, throwing aside the idea he is going to be under pressure to help lead Canada to a victory. “We all want to be part of these situations, we all want to be in those big games.”

The assumption had been that Jake Paterson was Canada’s No. 1 netminder, as that is just about always the case when the same goalie starts each of the first two games of the tournament.